As usual, I'm second-guessing myself when I find myself disliking a book that has received awards, critical praise and a movie deal. But unfortunately I just could not enjoy this book. There's an easy explanation for this: it was only after I was well into the novel, and started reading reviews in...
First off, I love the cover art by Dan Stiles! In The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, Eli and Charlie Sisters are notorious killers from Oregon working for "The Commodore" as guns for hire. They travel to California during the 1851 gold rush to kill their latest target, Hermann Kermit Warm....
THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a novel written like a bottle of whiskey. It uses a precise and refined set of ingredients to create something that is incendiary in purpose, violent in intent, and will make you drunk on words. SISTERS BROTHERS is a beautiful book, although it is not one of my all-time ...
What an interesting story and like another reviewer mentioned, what a great basis for a Coen brothers movie!! I really waffled between giving three and four stars for this book. The writing is excellent, I loved the short little chapters and there isn't a lot of wasted "breath" to set the scene. ...
When the Commodore orders the Sisters brothers to kill Herman Kermit Warm and take his mysterious formula, they have no idea the series of misadventures they will endure in the undertaking. I've been interested in this book forever and nabbed it on the cheap when it popped up on one of my ebook ne...
I am so not the target audience for this story.I mean it’s a western.Right?Still the cover art kept pulling at meIt’s the 1850’s, gold rush, CaliforniaAnd the Sisters Brothers are two killers for hire,on the trail; on a job.And I thoroughly enjoyed it, from the get go.Charlie Sisters has the lead he...
This is the very epitome of a picaresque novel. Eli and Charlie Sisters are hired guns working for the Commodore and are sent on a mission to kill Herman Kermit Warm, a prospector out of San Francisco, for reasons that sound dubious to say the least. The story picks up as the Sisters Brothers depart...
It's not that I didn't like this. I did! It was fun! It's just that I read it right after Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian, and how do you follow that? Y'know?But it's charming and funny, a nice break from the horrors of those other two. (Constant horrors for McCarthy, occasional but more personal h...
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